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Howard P. Wills; Paul Caldarella; Leslie Williams; Kandace Fleming; Pei-Yu Chen – Grantee Submission, 2021
Middle school is a cornerstone for success in high school. However, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement of adolescents often decline as they transition from elementary to middle school, resulting in lower school grades and more challenging behaviors, especially for adolescents with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Classroom Techniques, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention
Kimberly Davis Monson – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Classroom management is a common challenge in middle schools. Class-wide Function-Related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a multi-tiered intervention designed to decrease problem behaviors at the classroom level (Wills et al., 2010). It is comprised of evidence-based practices such as teaching classroom expectations, increasing teacher praise, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Behavior Problems, Art Education, Classroom Techniques
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Buddenhagen, R. G. – Mental Retardation, 1971
Examined are two alternatives to the use of electric shock to control destructive or repugnant behaviors in severely retarded or schizophrenic children: continued use of noncorporal punishment, and widescale application of appropriately arranged contingencies of positive reinforcement. (KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Electrical Stimuli, Emotional Disturbances
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Gunter, Philip L.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1993
This research review finds that academic activities and instructional interactions are potential sources of aversive stimuli that may increase undesirable escape and avoidance behavior in students with emotional disturbances. By reducing the availability of aversive stimuli in the instructional process, the development of more powerful and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
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Billingsley, Felix F.; Smelser, Sandra J. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Disturbances
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Sutherland, Kevin S.; Singh, Nirbhay N. – Behavioral Disorders, 2004
Students with emotional or behavioral disorders (E/BD) are characterized by academic deficits and classroom behavioral problems. The relationship between problem behavior and academic difficulties is complex, and some researchers have hypothesized that the classroom behavior problems of students with E/BD are responses to aversive stimuli, namely…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Stimuli, Behavior Problems, Negative Reinforcement
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Harrison, Janet S.; And Others – Education and Treatment of Children, 1996
This article suggests that students with emotional/behavioral disorders may use disruptive behaviors to escape and avoid teacher instructional language for which they do not have comprehension skills and thus find aversive. Teacher instructional language thus maintains aberrant behavior through a negative reinforcement paradigm. Recommendations…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Communication
Hill, John P., Ed. – 1967
Ten schizophrenic and autistic children who exhibited self destructive, tantrum, echolalic, and self stimulatory behaviors were treated by reinforcement therapy. Reinforcement withdrawal, in the form of interpersonal isolation contingent upon self-destruction, and electrical shocks served to extinguish these behaviors in some children.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Mussman, M.C. – 1968
Intended to provide administrators with information valuable in planning school involvement with the emotionally disturbed the text presents suggestions to a variety of questions on this subject. Questions on the nature and importance of the problem focus on emotional disorder, its relationship to behavior and achievement, and incidence, while…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Community Responsibility, Educational Needs, Emotional Adjustment